Romantic Transgression: Natsume Soseki (ten Lectures on Japanese Literary Masters 01)
by Yang Zhao
About This Novel
The standard-bearers of literature in the 20th century were also laggards of their respective eras. "Classic Reader" Yang Zhao's ten-lecture series on Japanese literary masters: Using literature, listen to their struggles and answers. Yang Zhao, the "classic reader" of this volume, × Natsume Soseki, the translator of the word "romance": Life is not easy, and it is difficult wherever you go. Is it possible for us to build a different world outside of the constraints of human society? From "I Am a Cat" to the unfinished work "Light and Dark", Natsume Soseki created 15 novels in just over ten years. Each work has different styles and characteristics, but they are all about the wrestling and confrontation between "human feelings" and "inhuman feelings". This also points to the collective confusion of an era. After the Meiji Restoration, the "modernity" of rapid Westernization did not bring the expected freedom to Japan, and traditional human ethics still fully enveloped individual lives. Over time, people lose their self, are unable to behave without social roles, and do not know who they are or where they are. Therefore, Soseki, who was determined to fight against the trend, used protagonists with "inhuman" qualities to illustrate that there are no established boundaries and there is no so-called "normal". People have the freedom and potential to choose. The standard answer of this era can only be faced and decided by oneself.
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